John
5:1-15
Some
time later,
Jesus
went up to Jerusalem for a Feast of the Jews.
2 Now
there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool,
Which in
Aramaic is called Bethesda
And which
is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
3 Here a
great number of disabled people used to lie—
The blind,
the lame, the paralyzed.
5 One who
was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
6 When
Jesus saw him lying there
And
learned that he had been in this condition for a long time,
He asked
him, 'Do you want to get well?'
7 'Sir,'
the invalid replied,
'I have no
one to help me into the pool
When the
water is stirred.
While I am
trying to get in,
Someone
else goes down ahead of me.'
8 Then
Jesus said to him,
'Get up!
Pick up ;your mat and walk.'
9 At once
the man was cured;
He picked
up his mat and walked.
The day on
which this took place was a Sabbath,
10 And so
the Jews said to the man who had been healed,
'It is the
Sabbath; the Law forbids you to carry your mat.'
11 But he
replied, 'The man who made me well said to me,
'Pick up
your mat and walk.'
12 So they
asked him,
'Who is
this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?'
13 The man
who was healed had no idea who it was,
For Jesus
had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14 Later
Jesus found him at the Temple and said to him,
'See, you
are well again.
Stop
Sinning or something worse may happen to you.'
15 The man
went away and told the Jews
That it
was Jesus who had made him well.
(John
5:1-15)
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